China Eases Stance on Religion
But Beijing Still Sets Boundaries

BEIJING -- Long stern oppressors of religion, China's Communist Party leaders are showing increasing tolerance for a religious revival now sweeping China.

Attendance is so thick at Beijing's officially sanctioned Gangwashi Protestant Church that it has installed closed-circuit televisions in two side chapels to accommodate worshippers -- and still they spill out into a courtyard. Nearly one in 10 Chinese, about 100 million people, now...